Ever fancied yourself running the locales of Temple Run 2 with your favorite NFL player? Well now you can, assuming of course that your favorite player is either Colin Kaepernick from the San Francisco 49ers or Russell Wilson of Seattle Seahawk’s fame. Starting from October 10 until Thanksgiving rolls around, two new players will be released each week. If you purchase them while they’re available you’ll have access to them even after the week is up, but once the next set comes to the Temple Run 2 store you’ll be out of luck. For more information on this special event go here:

Are you a fan of Dead Trigger 2? If so it’s time to find out how you compare with all the other trigger-ites. Madfinger Games is currently holding a competition called the Ithaca Tour that takes place in five cites across Europe (and since I’m a little bit late to the party two of them have already passed). Each leg of the competition takes place over a weekend in October except the final destination which starts on Halloween and continues through the second of November. Join the fray, wrack up some big scores and try to qualify for some cool prizes including an Nvidia Shield! Note that you will have to have a Dead Trigger 2 account which requires either a new signup or a Facebook account. For more details on the contest you can check out the official Berlin page, which is the next stop in the competition:

In a virtual App Store that sees thousands of new game releases a month, how is a company supposed to get noticed? Some feel they need to turn to publishers like Chillingo or BulkyPix, while others put their trust in PR firms. Apparently Nekki believes in the power of its own fan base. Shadow Fight 2 is the mobile sequel to their hit Facebook martial arts game, and so far it has seen 35 million downloads between iOS and Android devices. Nekki has amassed an amazing 160 million downloads amongst all of their games, which is quite impressive given that they has spent very little on advertising up to this point. Continue reading…

Most of my experience with Big Fish Games has been in relation to hidden object games, at least when it comes to my iDevices. I was intrigued by the release of Gummy Drop!, though, because I was told that it wasn’t a cookie cutter match 3 game, and as a devout fan of the genre I’m always looking for something that feels fresh. The truth is that from a mechanics perspective there really isn’t anything you haven’t seen before, or at least that’s the case with as far as I’ve gotten. What does stand out, however, are all the goals and extras that come with completing the levels. Be warned that this is a free to play game, which means you’ll need a fair amount of patience or the willingness to spend some IAP to keep progressing after a while.Continue reading…

Tilt To Live redefined the “dodge everything” genre of casual games, and Tilt To Live 2 took things up about 100 notches from the original (take the exaggeration with as much salt as you want – the point is that the games are awesome!) Never content with resting on their laurels, however, the team at One Man Left has decided to expand one of their TTL 2 DLC expansions into a full blown sequel, and thus Tilt To Live: Gauntlet’s Revenge is born. Rather than a simple arena affair this is an obstacle course style game, but there will still be plenty of stuff to dodge and ways to die. I’ll bring you more details once I’ve actually had the chance to play the game, but in the mean time here’s a nifty little bullet point list from the developers:

• Responsive tilt controls, calibrated your way. • Easy, Medium, & Hard modes: choose the length of your health bar • Challenging gameplay: experience the full spectrum of human emotion • Three gauntlets to conquer in whichever order you like! • Traps and enemies are shuffled for a fresh experience every retry. • Reach the finish line to take on an endless Bonus Round. • Show off your best pointonium haul on our Game Center leaderboards. • Challenging achievements dare you to master each gauntlet’s traps. • Unlock the final boss gauntlet to throw down with the Dot King himself.

You can expect this latest TTL twitch fest some time in October. In the mean time, why not check out the rest of the series?

The long haul of the holiday season has begun, and there’s still no shortage of new games on the App Store. I’ve been juggling between two games for the last entry in this week’s list, so here’s a bit about the one I didn’t pick. The game is called Appointment With F.E.A.R., and it’s the latest collaboration between Steve Jackson and Tin Man Games. You get to take on the role of a superhero, and the whole game is told in a comic book format rather than a more traditional book like the rest of Tin Man Games’ offerings. You get to choose a superpower which will affect how you handle different situations, and you’ll also have to choose at certain times who want to help when multiple crises rear their head simultaneously. It’s a nice departure from the typical gamebook, and I’d venture to say it’s probably a different superhero experience then you’ve had in electronic games before.Continue reading…

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I certainly did not rush out over the past couple of days to try and get an iPhone 6 / Plus, nor did I bother to pre-order one. And, even though I’ve always wanted to go to Australia, I didn’t hop a plane to the land down under to get one either. I did, however, upgrade to iOS 8, despite my usual rule of “wait a few weeks and let other sort out the kinks first”. Anyway, regardless of whether you’re running the absolute latest hardware or iOS revision, like usual there are a slew of games out there waiting to be played. So, without further ado, here are 10 more for you to check out…Continue reading…

They can try to turn iOS devices into console quality machines as hard as they want, but at the end of the day they still do portable games best. This week some of the most entertaining games were also the simplest, such as Freaking Shapes. All you have to do is say whether one shape fits into another or not, but see how long it takes before you’re saying “it’s not as easy as it seems”. Maybe you’d rather try your luck at FingerOut… and no, it’s not a game of obscene gestures. Here you just have to lift your finger from the screen when the circle underneath it changes to yellow, but you do have to remember to leave all your other fingers right where they are at. Then again, it could be that the traditional side scrolling infinite runner with basic jump and duck motions suits your fancy. Airblower Kid fits the bill, with the small exception that you have to keep tapping the screen to make sure your paper airplane stays afloat.Continue reading…

While I’ll happily take any sort of adventure game for my iPad that’s half way decent, there’s something about the 80’s King’s Quest style adventure that can’t be matched by a first person point of view or lots of hidden object scenes and mini-games. Apparently the developers behind Secret Files Tunguska get that, and as a result this is one of the best adventure games I’ve played on the iOS platform to date. The story keeps you wanting to know more, the NPC interaction is plentiful but not overburdening, and the puzzles are intelligent and fun. Add to that a polished interface and beautiful graphics and you can’t really ask for much more. Well, a bit of background music would be kind of nice… Continue reading…

At the end of 2012 I reviewed a game called Earn To Die, a post apocalyptic, get from point A to point B while running over zombies style game. There were actually several games of this type released around the same time, yet while I managed to dismiss most of the others as derivative and uninteresting, there was something about Earn To Die that kept me coming back for more. Nearly two years later Not Doppler has announced the sequel, and I for one am pretty excited.Continue reading…